Monday, May 17, 2010

Some SEO sites

So in my off/unemployed time I've been building up my SEO and online reputation skills - a friend recommended to me a few good sites, figured I'll post one here for future reference :)

http://www.woorank.com/ - Great site - for *free* it will scan your site's code and overall will tell you weak spots (alt texts are off, no meta tags or descriptors, etc.) - been using this to help speed up the site-optimization process :)

Obviously for a fee they'll dig into things like your individual pages, but still - a good site overall.

I'm working on a HTML/XML parser in excel that will allow me to dump the raw code in and pull out "problem" areas because while a site like woorank is helpful, often enough I need to compile documents detailing exactly what needs to be changed, and where. Anything to speed it up :)

3 comments:

  1. Why bother reinventing the wheel?

    There are plenty of SGML/HTML/XHTML/XML validators out there that accomplish what you are trying to do. Also, why would you do this in Excel? A full strength programming language like C# or Java seems to be a more appropriate tool for what you are trying to accomplish.

    Leave the programming to the software developers and concentrate on being a status reporter, I mean project manager.

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  2. this is more targeting non-programmers such as myself :) also, it's easier to use pre-made tools rather than have to pull in additional resources, such as a programmer - it increases project costs significantly for something that someone with a basic understanding can accomplish.

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